World History By AidenFr20 3760 BCE God Created the World 3500 BCE Indus River Valley Civilization in India 3500 BCE Sumerian Civilization in Mesopotamia 3300 BCE Egyptian Civilization 3000 BCE Minoan Civilization in Crete 2830 BCE Death of Adam 2705 BCE Noah is Born 2105 BCE The Great Flood 2100 BCE Yangtze River Valley Civilization in China 1895 BCE Babylon Founded 1813 BCE Abraham is Born 1738 BCE Abraham Settled in Caanan 1714 BCE Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed 1714 BCE Isaac is Born 1653 BCE Jacob and Esau are Born 1523 BCE Jacob and his Family move to Egypt 1400 BCE Mycenaean Civilization in Greece 907 BCE David is Born 814 BCE Carthage in Africa is Founded 808 BCE Greece Founded 776 BCE First Olympic Games in Greece 753 BCE Rome Founded 563 BCE Siddhartha Gautama, Buddha Born in India 551 BCE Confucius Born in China 539 BCE Persians Capture Babylon 538 BCE Persians Free the Israelites 509 BCE Roman Republic Founded 480 BCE Persians Invade Greece 431 BCE Peloponnesian War in Greece 427 BCE Birth of Plato 336 BCE Alexander the Great Conquers 264 BCE The First Punic War 146 BCE Rome Conquers Greece 30 BCE The Mediterranean Falls to Rome 27 BCE Roman Republic turns to the Roman Empire 1 CE Jesus is Born 43 Rome Conquers Britain 330 Constantine Divides the Empire in Two Halves 380 Christianity Becomes the Official Religion of the Roman Empire 476 The Fall of the Roman Empire 509 Clovis I Unites the Frankish Tribes to Create France 622 Islam Founded by Mohammed 762 Baghdad Founded by Muslims 800 Charlemagne is Crowned King of the Holy Roman Empire 808 China Discovers Gunpowder 843 The Holy Roman Empire is Divided and Becomes France and Germany 879 Slavic Tribes Unite to Found Russia 927 England Established in Britain 962 Germany Founded 1037 Seljuk Empire is Founded by Turkish Muslims and War with Europeans 1054 The Great Schism Between Western Catholics and Eastern Orthodox 1066 William the Conqueror Conquers England 1071 Turks Take Anatolia (Eastern Turkey) from Europeans 1096 Oxford University is Founded 1096 The Crusades Begin 1196 Shoguns Rule Japan 1206 Genghis Khan Unites the Mongols 1237 Mongols Raid and Capture Russia and Western Europe 1258 Mongols Siege Baghdad 1261 Mongols Fade Out of Europe 1271 Yuan Dynasty Founded in China by Kublai Khan 1282 The Habsburgs Rise to Power in Austria 1299 Ottoman Empire is Founded by Osman I 1337 Hundred Years War Begins Between England and France 1347 The Black Death Starts Spreading 1368 Ming Dynasty is Founded After the Khans 1403 Ottoman Empire Expands Rapidly 1440 First Printing Press 1452 Leonardo Da Vinci is Born 1453 End of the Hundred Years War 1453 Byzantine Empire Falls to the Ottomans 1480 Russia Breaks Free of Mongol Rule and Found a Monarchy 1492 Spain Blots out the Muslim Remnants in their Kingdom 1492 Cristopher Columbus Sails for India 1511 Spanish Conquest of the America's Begin 1517 Martin Luther Nails his 95 Theses to the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany 1525 Germany is called the "Duchy of Prussia" 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus Says that Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun 1543 Birth of Isaac Newton 1580 Russian Conquest of Siberia 1607 English Colonization Begins in America 1613 Romanov Dynasty Rises to Power in Russia 1633 Japan is Isolated from the rest of the World 1636 Qing Dynasty is Founded in China 1685 Enlightenment Begins in Europe 1701 The Duchy of Prussia Becomes the Kingdom of Prussia 1707 Union of England and Scotland 1721 Russian Empire is Founded by Peter the Great 1752 Benjamin Franklin Experiments with Electricity 1754 French and Indian War 1763 Steam Power is Developed 1776 America Declares Independence from England 1776 Revolutionary War in America 1789 The French Revolution 1796 First Smallpox Vaccine 1799 Coup of Brumaire in France 1801 The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is Formed 1803 The UK Declares War on France 1803 Napoleon Sells Louisiana Territory to the United States. 1804 Napoleon Declares Himself Emperor of the French 1805 The Royal Navy Defeats the French Fleet and Spanish Armada in the Battle of Trafalgar 1805 France Defeats Russia and Austria in the Battle of Austerlitz 1806 Prussia, Russia, and the UK form a Coalition Against France Period: 1806 to 1814 Increasing Losses of France 1812 War of 1812 1812 France Fails to Conquer Russia 1814 Napoleon's First Banishment 1815 Napoleon Returns from Banishment 1815 Napoleon is Defeated Again and Finally Banished 1816 First Camera Prototype Made by Joseph Nicephore 1821 Spain Loses All American Colonies 1821 Greek War of Independence from the Turks 1824 Russia Expands it's Borders into Asia 1826 First Photograph Taken by Joseph Nicephore 1829 Invention of the Telegraph by Joseph Henry 1846 Mexican-American War 1848 The Communist Manifesto Published by Karl Marx 1853 USA Force Japan to Open Borders 1858 British Conquer All India 1861 Start of American Civil War 1863 President Abraham Lincoln Issues the Emancipation Proclomation 1863 The Battle of Gettysburg 1864 Start of the Paraguayan War 1865 Confederate Forces Surrender 1868 Japanese Empire Established 1870 Franco-Prussian War 1872 British Annex More of the Middle East 1879 First Light bulb made by Thomas Edison 1882 Alliance Made Between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy 1882 British Conquer Egypt 1884 Ethiopia only Independent Country Left in Africa 1884 Machine Gun Invented by Hiram Maxim 1886 First Modern Car made by Carl Benz 1894 France Allies With Russia Due to Germany's Alliance With Austria and Italy 1894 Japanese Empire Expands into Korea and China 1895 Cinematograph Invented by Lumiere Brothers to Project Recordings 1896 First Olympic Games Since AD 393 1898 Japan Defeats China 1898 Spain Loses Cuba to USA 1904 Japan Defeats Russia 1905 Albert Einstein Creates the Energy Equation 1907 Russia, France, and the UK form the Triple Entente 1913 Turks Lose All European Territory in the Balkan Wars 1913 Henry Ford Starts the Mass Production of Cars 1914 Battle of the Marne 1914 Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Starts The First World War 1915 Sinking of the Lusitania 1916 Battle of Verdun 1917 The Russian Revolution 1918 Armistice Ending the War 1919 Treaty of Versailles 1920 League of Nations Founded 1920 Economic Boost in the US 1922 Rise of Benito Mussolini in Italy 1922 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is Founded 1929 Great Depression Begins 1929 Stock Market Crash 1933 Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor of the German Republic 1937 Japan Invades China 1939 Britain and France Declare War on Germany 1939 Germany Invades Poland 1940 Germany Invades Much of Europe 1941 Germany Invades the USSR 1941 Attack of Pearl Harbor 1941 USA and Japan Join the War 1942 Battle of Midway in the Pacific Front 1943 Italy Surrenders to the Allies 1944 D-Day 1944 Battle of the Bulge 1945 Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt Dies and Harry Truman Takes His Place 1945 Battle of Berlin 1945 Japan Surrenders to the Allies 1945 Germany Surrenders to the Allies 1947 Sound Barrier Broken 1947 The Truman Doctrine 1947 Cold War Begins 1948 Israel Becomes a Country Again 1949 The People's Republic of China is Founded by Mao Zedong 1950 The Korean War 1955 The Space Race Begins 1956 The Suez Crisis 1961 First Troops Sent to Vietnam 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech 1963 Assassination of John F. Kennedy 1967 First Successful Human Heart Transplant 1969 The Moon Landing 1969 Stonewall Riots 1975 North Vietnam Took Over South Vietnam, Ending the War 1980 Mount St. Helen's Eruption 1986 Chernobyl Disaster 1987 USA and USSR Agree to Lessen their Amount of Nuclear Weapons 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall, Ending the Cold War 1990 The Gulf War 1990 The World-Wide Web is Created 1991 USSR is Dismembered, Russian Federation Founded 1993 European Union Founded 1995 World Trade Organization Founded 1996 Congo Wars 2000 Israeli Troops Withdraw from Lebanon after 22 Years 2001 War on Terrorism Begins 2001 The Twin Towers Destroyed by Terrorists 2011 Osoma Bin-Laden, the Man Behind the 9/11 Attacks is Killed by Navy SEALS 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic